would it still be there?

today at lesson, we were talking about modern strings (you know, the difference with the gut strings, etc), bow shapes (concave vs convex), and how technology/innovation keeps changing little things and big things.

suddenly kid asks seriously:
do you think there'll be classical music in 100 years?

we then talked about a few things:

1. we might get a few adjustments made in our instruments in western classical music, but very unlike that instruments will change significantly or become obsolete. she was sceptical so we talked about how many people love to play electronic-acoustic instruments ( not many), aversion to some tweaks (like... aversion to carbon fibre instruments),  and the fact that some people just like old things (classical music is an oldie thing)

2. i asked her if she would ever replace her dog with a virtual dog. virtual dog would have some advantages, like... no need to pick up poo, or toilet train, feed, walk it in rain, that it'll never die, etc- she said no, my dog is beautiful! i asked what about that? she said, puppy's real.

and then we talked about the fact these core repertoire already have survived coupla centuries, so probably, it will stand around for a few more centuries, as we are able to keep records of more and more things than ever.

so that was the lesson today. what an interesting thing.

something that is real will never disappear.

though, something that is cheap and disposable, like plastic spoon for 1 cent, may also never disappear...